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“It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.”
― The Dud Avocado
― The Dud Avocado
“I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that, if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life”
― The Dud Avocado
― The Dud Avocado
“The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless.”
― The Dud Avocado
― The Dud Avocado
“The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?”
― The Dud Avocado
― The Dud Avocado
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with the inviolable, unquestioned certainty found in dementia. There were references dated and sealed with meticulous care which she would have enthusiastically opened with the mirth of one proclaiming a lifetime of honors and awards. But that singular event was freshly disturbed; its pores still drifted on the faint zephyr of remembrance.”
― Everautumn
― Everautumn
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